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mike85
March 26th, 2007, 04:06 PM
I've tried to move 200 GB data (ext3) with GParted LiveCD to the right to get more space for my root partition. I've told GParted delete "/dev/sda4",
add the space of "/dev/sda4" to "/dev/sda2", move "/dev/sda2" to the right for 5.4 GB and pressed "Apply". But after 11 hours and 80%, GParted crashed during copying. I've tried to undo and to move the partition back to the left but now GParted from LiveCD and Ubuntu crashes always within minutes.

I've seen that GParted uses "e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sda2" to check and repair the partition. So I've opened the terminal and entered the command.

30 hours later e2fsck told me that there will be still errors but the only data I get are lots of numbers in the "lost+found" directory. The "lost+found" directory needs 16 GB of space and now I have 210 GB free space.

Is it possible to recover the data with the Acronis Disk Director Suite?

I've checked the properties of the messed up partition and the demo tells me "File system error: Directory corrupted".

But the demo "can't find any unallocated space(s) on my hard disk drive(s)".

And everytime I try to "Check" the ext3 partition, the demo "can't check the selected partition".

Thank you very much!